 Hi, this is Stu Miniman with wikibon.com. Happy to have with me Chad Sackich, who's the president of the EMC Converged Platform Division. Chad, thanks for joining me. And so VMware, you're good friends at VMware. I have released vSAN 6.2. So sometimes the dot releases aren't the most exciting things, but tell us why this is important. You know what I love about my VMware brothers and sisters is great innovation, great engineering talent. The marketing team is fantastic, but I think the product team should have called this like vSAN face melting edition, not a dot two kind of release. Well, the nice thing is that the releases now match the vSphere releases, so we're not confused with where they are and everything. All right, so what's the key? What are the new pieces? What has you so excited? So the first thing that's huge is broad use of all flash configurations. So we've clearly crossed kind of a Rubicon into the era where all flash configurations are the way to go, whether it's SDS or an external storage array for transactional workloads in the data center. So all flash configurations that are broadened out. The second thing that I think is just huge is D-dupe, compression, erasure coding, a whole slew of stuff that is focused around data reduction and data efficiency technologies. Yeah, really closing the gap. I think many of us like the idea of vSAN and when we saw the roadmap we said, oh good, you're checking the boxes, you're getting there to make this a solution that I could go to customers and say this is ready for production. And when you go into production then there's a third little wave of stuff that sometimes people forget about, but people who understand the persistence or the storage business look for, and CRC checks and values, things like end-to-end encryption models. Those things are all really important. So the point being here that vSAN has gone through version one, 1.5, 6.0, 6.1, and now 6.2, it is now the most widely deployed transactional SDS by customer count on the plan. I think scale.io is number one by total capacity. We've got a smaller number of scale.io customers, but they're enormous. Customers are using vSAN and loving it. So one of the interesting things we look at, I've talked to plenty of vSAN customers that they're happy with it, they love it. The go-to-market has been a little bit messy. So what have we learned? I guess we kind of had the EVO rail. Customers I talked to said it was confusing, it was expensive, you see certain companies dropping the product, you're sitting with the VCE and everything. Where's that stand in your car? It's so exciting, what day is it? Well, so look, how do I say this without crossing? Stay tuned, February the 16th, we've got some big things coming and it's not a coincidence that it's days removed from the vSAN launch. You know, we learned a lot of things that while the majority of how customers deploy SDS starts as software only, in other words, they build their own stuff, increasingly what they want is they want more and more turnkey, they want an integrated system. And so we've discovered that there's a three stages of that continuum, software only, great, fantastic. Qualified with server, vSAN ready nodes, okay. And then fully hyper-converged appliances. With EVO rail 1.0 we learned a lot of lessons. Lots of great feedback from the customers. They basically told us loud and clear that they wanted the additional data services that are in vSAN 6.2. Number two, they really like the hyper-converged appliance form factor, but the first version of it was too restrictive. So it basically said one size fits all and customers said I want smaller ones, I want bigger ones, I want more CPU, I want less RAM, more RAM, more hard drive, less hardware, et cetera, et cetera. So there's a line there of how turnkey versus how optional the systems are. And we learned one thing more than anything else, which is that in the appliance market it has got a very high degree of sensitivity around price elasticity. In other words, entry price point has to be as low as you can go. And if you think about it, basically with today's launch we've solved all of the gaps in vSAN and in fact have pulled ahead on almost all of the vectors. It always had the best VMware integration, the best performance, best simplicity in ease of use. It was lacking some data reduction services, check, check, check. If only now we were able to pull it together into an absolutely phenomenal kick but hyper-converged appliance. All right, so you're gonna wait and make his way till February 16th? Stay tuned, come in February 16th, you're gonna see something face-melting. All right Chad, so appreciate the preview here and the explanation on 6.2. Stay tuned, we'll have more coverage as EMC, VCE and VMware. Roll out the solutions around vSAN. Thanks so much for watching.